Plantago amplexicaulis

Taxobox
name = "Plantago amplexicaulis"


image_width =200px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Lamiales
familia = Plantaginaceae
tribus = Plantagineae
genus = "Plantago"
species = "P. amplexicaulis"
binomial = "Plantago amplexicaulis"cite web
url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?28779
title = Taxon: "Plantago amplexicaulis"
accessdate = 2008-04-22
author = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
authorlink = Germplasm Resources Information Network
date = 2002-12-16
format = HTML
work = Taxonomy for Plants
publisher = USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland ]
binomial_authority = Cav.
synonyms = "Plantago lagopoides" Desf.cite web
url = http://ww2.bgbm.org/_EuroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameId=27862&PTRefFk=500000
title = Details for: "Plantago amplexicaulis"
accessdate = 2008-04-22
author = Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem
authorlink = Botanical Garden in Berlin
format = HTML
work = Euro+Med PlantBase
publisher = Freie Universität Berlin ]

"Plantago amplexicaulis" is an annual plant of the family Plantaginaceae and the genus "Plantago" that grows in dry sand and deserts.cite web
url = http://flora.huji.ac.il/browse.asp?lang=en&action=specie&specie=PLAAMP
title = "Plantago amplexicaulis" Cav.
accessdate = 2008-04-22
author = Flora of Israel Online
authorlink = Flora of Israel Online
format = HTML
publisher = The Hebrew University of Jerusalem]

"P. amplexicaulis" is a therophyte, a type of plant that survives as seed during unfavourable conditions. In the deserts where "P. amplexicaulis" lives, this results in the desert suddenly bursting into bloom after a rainstorm.cite book
last = Schulze
first = E -D
coauthors = Erwin Beck, Klaus Müller-Hohenstein
title = Plant Ecology
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=rDo8hLWtWzgC&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
format = HTML
date = 2005
publisher = Springer Science+Business Media
isbn = 354020833X
pages = 702 pages
chapter = Vegetation History
chapterurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=rDo8hLWtWzgC&pg=PA512&lpg=PA512&source=web&ots=9dwDB0hNyp&sig=JSuF4_Hniz3T4QmLNux170dfD4Y&hl=en#PPA512,M1
accessdate = 2008-04-22 ]

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*cite web
url = http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=115140
title = "Plantago amplexicaulis" Cav. record n° 115140
accessdate = 2008-04-22
format = HTML
work = African plants database
publisher = South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica.